Roman Hädelmayr

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Roman Hädelmayr (incorrectly occasionally also Hädelmayer ; born March 30, 1907 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † 1988 ibid.) Was an Austrian journalist, author and political scientist.

Life

Hädelmayr came from a Viennese working class family. In his youth he attended a high school in Vienna. During this time he came into contact with the Austrian branch of the Nazi movement , he was later given membership number 83.860. In July 1924 he was arrested in Vienna for his involvement in a fight between Austrian Nazi supporters and Social Democrats. In 1926 Hädelmayr was appointed leader of the Vienna Hitler Youth (HJ) before he was entrusted with the regional leadership of the HJ in 1928 by the NSDAP in Austria . Together with Fritz Mahrer, Hädelmayr created the hymn of the Vienna HJ with the “Wiener Jung-Arbeiterlied” in 1926, with Hädelmayr writing the text and Mahrer putting it into musical form.

In the second half of the 1920s Hädelmayr began with the study of political science at the University of Vienna , where he in 1932 with a thesis on The Company believes the romance to Dr. rer. pol received his doctorate .

In 1932, Hädelmayr turned increasingly away from the Nazi movement. Instead, he approached the corporate state ideas of his teacher Othmar Spann . As a member of the forming to Spann clamping circuit Hädelmayr initiated with Spann's son Raphael organizing the Ständische society . He also worked for the magazine Ständisches Leben from 1932 to 1935 . From 1933 to 1936 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Estates in Düsseldorf .

When, after the National Socialists came to power in Germany, the efforts of the German government to incorporate Austria into the German Reich became more and more apparent, Hädelmayr began to organize with other Nazi opponents in the Astra group, which systematically worked against the " Anschluss of Austria ". In addition to the sons of Othmar Spann and Karl von Winckler, this group also included the Nazi-hostile attaché at the German embassy in Vienna, Wilhelm von Ketteler , who specifically supplied the group with internal information.

After the German invasion of Austria , Hädelmayr decided not to flee or go into hiding, despite several warnings that he was in danger if he was found in Vienna. While his friend Wilhelm von Ketteler was arrested by members of the security service (SD) on March 13, 1938 and murdered soon afterwards, Hädelmayr was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp . In Dachau, where he was taken on April 2, 1938, and in Buchenwald concentration camp , he spent four years as a “ protective prisoner ” until his release in spring 1943 , during which he was repeatedly subjected to severe abuse. After his release he was forcibly served in the Wehrmacht from 1943 to 1945 . For Franz von Papen , Hädelmayr acted as the main liaison to Cardinal Theodor Innitzer .

After the Second World War , Hädelmayr lived as a writer and economist in Vienna. Politically, he distinguished himself as a propagandist for the common economy within the framework of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Österreichischen Gemeinwirtschaft .

Fonts

  • The return. Poems , 1938.
  • Grande amatrice. Eleonora Duse and Gabriele d'Annunzio , 1948.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Rudolf Leo: "dachaureif" - The Austrian transport from Vienna to the Dachau concentration camp on April 1, 1938. Ed .: Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance and Central Austrian Research Center for Post-War Justice. Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-901142-75-8 , p. 316 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hädelmayr, Roman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hädelmayr-Kühn, Roman (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, author and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Vienna